Why Is Donald Trump Still So Horribly Witless About the World?

“Lebanon is on the front lines in the fight against ISIS, Al Qaeda, and Hezbollah,” President Trump pronounced, during an appearance with Lebanon’s Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, in July.

Photograph by Carlos Barria / Reuters

Max Boot, a lifelong conservative who advised three Republican
Presidential candidates on foreign policy, keeps a folder labelled
“Trump Stupidity File” on his computer. It’s next to his “Trump Lies”
file. “Not sure which is larger at this point,” he told me this week.
“It’s neck-and-neck.”

Six months into the Trump era, foreign-policy officials from eight past
Administrations told me they

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